Rene Viviani

Rene Viviani (8 November 1863-7 September 1925) was Prime Minister of France from 13 June 1914 to 29 October 1915, succeeding Alexandre Ribot and preceding Aristide Briand.

Biography
Rene Viviani was born on 8 November 1863 in Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria, France to a family of Italian immigrants, and he became a member of the Republican-Socialist Party. In 1893, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies to represent the fifth ward of Paris, and he became a major member of the socialist movement in France. In 1914, he formed a socialist government in France, and he was responsible for forming a national unity government at the start of World War I in August. The Second Battle of Champagne and the entry of the Tsardom of Bulgaria into the war on the side of the Central Powers in 1915 led to the fall of Viviani's government; he survived a vote of no confidence, but he was forced to resign in October when no French politicians agreed to join his cabinet. He died in 1925 at the age of 61.